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Table 6 Factors affecting biosecurity and disease prevention indexes (BDPI) on cattle, small ruminant and village chicken farms in the CDZ of Myanmar

From: How can we compare multispecies livestock rearing households? – an analysis of the impact of health and production parameters on multispecies livestock rearing outcomes

Variables

Categories

N

% of households in BDPI category

Odds ratio

p-value

Wald test

Poor

Low

High

Outcome variable: BDPI in cattle farm

Poor (0%) – 20 (5.0%)

Low (1–45%) – 197 (51.1%)

High (> 45%) – 165 (43.9%)

 Duration of rearing cattle

< 5 years

382

22.1

11.9

4.7

1

 

> 5 years

77.9

88.1

95.3

3.0 (1.0–9.0)

0.049

Outcome variable: BDPI in small ruminant farm

Poor (0%) – 79 (26.9%)

Low (1–12.5%) – 117 (36.8%)

High (> 12.5%) – 107 (36.3%)

 Duration of rearing sheep

< 5 years

303

77.9

86.5

94.7

1

 

> 5 years

 

22.1

13.5

5.3

0.3 (0.2–0.6)

< 0.0001

Outcome variable: BDPI in village chicken farm

Poor (0%) – 126 (38.1%)

Low (1–15%) – 106 (32.9%)

High (> 15%) – 95 (29.0%)

 Type of animal reared

Village chicken only

327

14.8

18.5

32.7

1

 

0.0020

Cattle + Village chicken

25.4

42.2

32.7

0.6 (0.2–1.7)

0.336

Small ruminant + Village chicken

34.1

11.6

10.8

0.2 (0.1–0.5)

0.001

All 3 spp.

25.7

27.8

23.7

0.5 (0.2–1.3)

0.134

 Duration of rearing village chicken

< 5 years

327

31.2

22.4

16.0

1

 

> 5 years

68.8

77.6

84.0

1.9 (1.3–3.0)

0.002